Pierre Habouzit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 05:51:54PM +0000, Russ Allbery wrote:

>> We tried to do this earlier and it broken horribly because when you use
>> make -n, you can get false negatives, and if you don't use -n, well,
>> obviously bad things happen.

>   Have you any idea of why -n could get errors ? I've built a system at
> work that uses make -nspqr heavily and I've seen almost no issues so
> far, so I'm a bit surprised.

I think the problem was specifically with invocations of submakes, which
is how some packages end up implementing these rules.  There's a bug
somewhere, but I can't find it at the moment.  :/

>   See planet.debian.org today :)

debhelper v7 is already fixed in Subversion, which I assume is what you
were referring to.  Have you run into anything else?

-- 
Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED])               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>



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